On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:41:59PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have installed VLC on my new installation of testing amd64. I > installed it from Synaptic. > > It runs fine, but the display is scrunched to the left one-quarter of > the screen. Height is normal, though. Makes actors look really, really > skinny. > > It happens with every file type I have thrown at it, include commercial > DVDs, so it's not a problem with a certain kind of media. It also > continues scrunched up if I run it full screen. > > Totem works normally. In fact, I prefer Totem; I use VLC usually only > when a movie has subtitles. I have a hard time getting Totem to display > subtitles, but VLC just does it automatically. > > I have looked in all the settings and configurations and can't find > anything that appears wrong. > > Most recently I used it on Jaunty, where it worked fine. I replaced the > ~/.vlc folder with the one from Jaunty, but it changed nothing. > > Google hasn't offered any help so far. I'm stumped. Anyone have any > suggestions?
I had this problem. Scrunched video, with loss of color. Posted about it on the VLC forum. The solution at the time was to delete my ~/.vlc directory. Now the vlc config files are in ~/config/vlc, and I have the same problem after some period of proper display. (Did I upgrade by accident?) Deleting these new config files and restarting VLC doesn't help. My error message is: swScaler: Palette is not supported as output pixel format [00000507] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory I just checked on the forum: closed, due to high traffic associated with 1.0.0 release. Please post if you find a solution. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org